By Adam Pagnucco. Last Thursday, the county council’s Government Operations and Fiscal Policy Committee took up the county’s beleaguered grants program, a subject of mounting…
Budget and Taxes
The Gathering Storm
By Adam Pagnucco. Presidential election years are normally sleepy ones in state and local politics. Sure, the identity of the president and control of Congress…
By Adam Pagnucco. Two days ago, we reported on how an error by MCPS in a state aid application resulted in its request for an…
By Adam Pagnucco. Yesterday, I reported that MCPS was seeking $21.6 million in additional county money for the Charles W. Woodward High School project because…
By Adam Pagnucco. Earlier today, I wrote about how Superintendent Thomas Taylor’s first recommended capital budget claimed that due to “errors” by MCPS, the school…
MCPS “Error” Could Cost Taxpayers Millions
By Adam Pagnucco. MCPS Superintendent Thomas Taylor has released his first recommended capital budget and it contains this admission: An “error” made by MCPS in…
By Adam Pagnucco. A new poll by Gonzales Research finds that a majority of Maryland voters not only favor proceeding with new transportation projects –…
Madaleno Warns Council on Budget
By Adam Pagnucco. In a new memo to the county council, Chief Administrative Officer Rich Madaleno describes a number of budgetary pressures including declining revenue…
Elrich Wants Us to Be Like Virginia. Really?
By Adam Pagnucco. It won’t be a surprise to Montgomery Perspective readers that County Executive Marc Elrich wants to raise taxes. After all, he has…
By Adam Pagnucco. Few county debates are more consequential than those concerning the charter, which is equivalent to the county’s constitution. And of such debates,…